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To tackle the human health challenges that face the world today, the FNIH develops collaborations with top experts from government, industry, academia and the not-for-profit sector and provides a neutral environment where we can work productively toward a common goal.

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Sports and Health Research Program

The Sports and Health Research Program (SHRP) seeks to help accelerate research that enhances the health of athletes at all ages and levels, and to extend the research’s impact beyond the playing field to benefit others in the general population, including members of the military.

Sports and Health Research Program: Pilot Projects on Sports-Related Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research

Pilot Projects on Sports-Related Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research is a component of the Sports and Health Research Program (SHRP) that funds pilot projects for research on sports-related traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury research.

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Delayed Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury is a component of the Sports and Health Research Program. It seeks to more fully characterize the neuropathology associated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and delayed effects of traumatic brain injury through systematic, rigorous and collaborative studies of post-mortem biospecimens.

The Consortium will establish a technical and data infrastructure for reliably measuring social function, allowing the collaborating sites to work together as a single unit. The goal is to create a set of measures that can be used in clinical trials to determine which treatments are best for which patients and who will benefit from a particular treatment. The ultimate goal is to further develop and validate a set of measures that can be used as stratification biomarkers and/or sensitive and reliable objective measures of social impairment in autism spectrum disorders that could serve as indicative markers of long term clinical outcome.